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one after another, technological advances have allowed us to be more productive durin. our workforce isn't going to go like that anymore because the baby boomers are leaving the workforce, retiring. the only way to get to the growth we had after the war is productivity growth than we have to figure out how to make that possible. it is not the only thing that matters. they kind of social solidarity matters durin. we have to care about people who are very badly harmed by the social cultural effects of the welfare state, the globalization, and other or says that are hard to control. the collapse of marriage, the collapse of the family among the poor. and we have to worry about productivity growth at the same time. that means that national leaders will have very difficult challenges to face and neither party at this point is thinking about them. >> how would you rate barack obama? , i think -- i think he is not a very good president. first of all, i disagree with the agenda he has tried to advance. i think that is not good for the country. it is an agenda consolidation of t
one after another, technological advances have allowed us to be more productive durin. our workforce isn't going to go like that anymore because the baby boomers are leaving the workforce, retiring. the only way to get to the growth we had after the war is productivity growth than we have to figure out how to make that possible. it is not the only thing that matters. they kind of social solidarity matters durin. we have to care about people who are very badly harmed by the social cultural...
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of course the new technology then was roofment and it turned out radio was a blessing for him because he had a little bit of wire in his voice and it cut through apparently a very good radio voice. he thought he was on radio there and he read as though on the roofment his personality comes through. >> the chapter they thought was most i lum nating about him as a person and i'm not sure you pronounce it this way, the ode den, what is that chapt ter >> this is when you get to college, the outsider that's greek. he happened to go to a college that had a motto let them lum nate the earth. a college for future ministers, generally congregationist although there were others there. and he went down there and at the time it was a greek school. ed the a lot of fraternities and most kids were in them. and what is interesting about calvin, and this is all the way through his life, he didn't seem like he was going to make it. he got there and thought he should be in one, he wrote his letter saying something about that and then he wasn't chosen. so imagine being in a very greek school with boys ri
of course the new technology then was roofment and it turned out radio was a blessing for him because he had a little bit of wire in his voice and it cut through apparently a very good radio voice. he thought he was on radio there and he read as though on the roofment his personality comes through. >> the chapter they thought was most i lum nating about him as a person and i'm not sure you pronounce it this way, the ode den, what is that chapt ter >> this is when you get to college,...
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and you might think it's just about the technology but it's not. he's talking about the banking system or ideas of kind of free communication of ideas and how that has helped win certain battles. so i really like those. >> you have a chapter, obama full fledged product of american pop culture. first question though on that, what impact did his book dreams of our father have on his run for the presidency? >> i think a tremendous impact. i read it and was very impressed with how well written it was. what a compelling story it was. and even now when you've heard some of the stuff about how there's certain facts that he shaded over, it's still really you a window into the guy's soul and tells you why he's successful politician. in he does have a section there that i cite in the book where he talks about how much tv he watched as a kid and it really kind of blew me away that he was going to this elite school in hawaii and he said that after school he went to the store and watched cartoons and watched sit come reruns and prime time tv and he listened to
and you might think it's just about the technology but it's not. he's talking about the banking system or ideas of kind of free communication of ideas and how that has helped win certain battles. so i really like those. >> you have a chapter, obama full fledged product of american pop culture. first question though on that, what impact did his book dreams of our father have on his run for the presidency? >> i think a tremendous impact. i read it and was very impressed with how well...
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covered the gamut both technologically and politically. he talks about the book and the impact of television and talks about how you can be here, meaning you're watching at home while you're there being projected to the american audience and how tv brings people to your living room in the way that no technology had done so. it's not radio that brought the voice in. sot your image. so borston understood that the images was very important to the understanding of how americans would proceed them. >> mark knoller of cbs radio. what's that? >> mark knoller tallies everything about the presidency. he's got a great data base. they archive how many games he took. when there was a nalgsal press conference event, reporters say what's the number on this particular thing that the president is doing. what i found is that the presidents take vacations. i don't begrudge their vacationings. but if a democratic president takes vacation, they get krit sized by republicans and the other way around. there's hypocrisy in the type of criticism. they should be a
covered the gamut both technologically and politically. he talks about the book and the impact of television and talks about how you can be here, meaning you're watching at home while you're there being projected to the american audience and how tv brings people to your living room in the way that no technology had done so. it's not radio that brought the voice in. sot your image. so borston understood that the images was very important to the understanding of how americans would proceed them....